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In a few months, Germany will elect a new chancellor. Ministers Jens Spahn and Armin Laschet are now standing and presenting their visions.
North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) have presented a program for the CDU after the Angela Merkel era. In it, they ask their party to “make the 1920s a decade of modernization for Germany.” The impulse document, which n-tv reported for the first time on Sunday and which is available to the German Press Agency, was sent to the district presidents of the CDU, members of the state and of the Bundestag and European parliamentarians of the CDU.
Laschet and Spahn call for a “digital ministry worthy of its name.” Startups need to be promoted, promise the economy a “cargo moratorium.” They also propose an extension of compulsory schooling for young people aged 16 to 18 without a certificate of completion. As a lesson from the corona pandemic, they want to expand health authorities and headquarters capabilities in business and administration.
Spahn supports Laschet’s candidacy
Laschet and Spahn make no specific reference to the CDU presidential race. The NRW prime minister is one of the candidates who wants to appear on January 16 at a party digital conference. Spahn supports this candidacy. In addition to Laschet, the former leader of the parliamentary group of the Union Friedrich Merz and the external expert of the CDU Norbert Röttgen are running.
In their role, Laschet and Spahn promise the party, among other things, a strengthening of member participation, open debates and a “clear demarcation to the right.” Furthermore, they emphasize in the attached letter that the party and its program must determine the government’s action, not the other way around.
